Definition of "millennium" []

• A span of one thousand years. (noun)
• A thousand-year period of holiness mentioned in Revelation 20, during which Jesus and his faithful followers are to rule on earth. (noun)
• A hoped-for period of joy, serenity, prosperity, and justice. (noun)
• A thousandth anniversary. (noun)

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• "However, I had just made what I called my millennium resolution—a resolution for the next one thousand years."
• "My beliefs are that God may have designed the universe, but did it over more than a week maybe we got our units of time mixed up; a day should be what we call a millennium?"
• "A system that at the turning of the new century, and new millennium, is still atoning for its sins of the '70s."